Political Order in Modern East Asian States

<p>This text explains political change and the shaping of political order in modern East Asian states: China Japan North Korea South Korea Taiwan and Vietnam.</p><p>Examining the transformative role of power authority and political culture in the shaping of political order this book:</p><ul> <li>Describes the emergence of statist and pluralist political order in East Asia.</li> <li>Outlines the dual process of state-building and nation-building revealing the transformative role of the state.</li> <li>Highlights the causes and consequences of the reversion to centralized political order describing the structure and institutions of Cold War regimes in East Asian states.</li> <li>Explores the structural and institutional consequences of industrial development on politics and state in East Asian states.</li> <li>Discusses the methods and outcomes of the democratization movements in the 1980s and 1990s and public sector reforms in the 1990s and 2010s.</li> <li>Utilizes survey data and newly developed indicators to measure and reveal the shaping of national political culture in each East Asian state.</li> <li>Features structural institutional and normative analysis of political change in modern East Asia.</li> </ul><p>This will be an essential textbook for students of Political Science International Relations East Asian Politics and East Asian History as well as policy analysts of East Asian states.</p>